New accessibility tool for technical diagrams

Thanks to Dan Jellineck's E-ACCESS BULLETIN - ISSUE 61, JANUARY 2005 for this tidbit:

Technical Drawings Understanding for the Blind (TeDUB -
http://www.tedub.org/) has been headed by the TeDUB Consortium which comprises partners from the UK, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands.
TeDUB works by uploading diagrams, such as the "box and pointer" diagrams often used to design family trees, to a web site where they are converted into a compatible format and then emailed back to the user. It has been designed to work best with diagrams created in Unified Modeling Language (UML), a coding language often used by software engineers to represent real-world objects.
The system also allows vision-impaired users to move around diagrams with a joystick. It provides basic sound to accompany navigation allowing users to hear where they are, and is also compatible with screen readers.
The software is available by download from the TeDUB web site where tutorials and examples of UML diagrams can also be found. It is funded by the sixth framework of the European Commission's Information Society Technologies research programme (http://www.cordis.lu/ist/).

For more information: http://www.tedub.org